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Show jklie Two Holdups and the Men Who Acted as a "Fence" For the Robbers Are Now Under Heavy Guard at the City Jail Pete Murphy Is the Tall Mae and Wi Lewis is the Short One Who Did the Snooting Men Have Been living at 2417 Grant -Avenue Since P.ecemlier 21 Last Sack In Which Loot Was Carried and Two Grease-Splashed Overcoats Are Found Police Know Where the, Diamonds and Watches Ate Cactied-s-One of the Associates ol the Gang Turned Informer Great Crowd Attracted to the Scene, I the Arrests-Murphy and Lews Also Meld Up the 0O . JL Train Near Ogden. HOLDUPS MAKE NO EFFORT I'aietly Submit to- Being Saadcuffed When Surprised in Their Den and Quickly Enter the Patrol WagonLawJady Tells Of . tier Experience-Men Have Been "Batching" They Played the .. Ponies and Gambled After Their Lately Acquired Prosperity WHO THE MEN ABE. W. Lewis, the small man, aged 39 years. Pete Murphy, the tall man, aged 37 years. H. fJhafer, man who disposed of loot, aged 23 years. Thomas O'Dell, bartender, known locally, aged 38 years. , An associate of the train robbers who had partaken of the spoils, whose conscience hurt him, is the man in part responsible for the cap- : ture. This man confided his secret to another man from whom Chief J: Browning and Detective Pender jointly received the clue that led to the arrest. Chief Browning called in Sherif Harrison and Cap-' ;' fciin Brown and the four lost no time in trailing down - the perpetrators of the most daring train robbery ever planned and executed in the West. The men were caught napping and quietly and meekly submitted to arrest at 9 o'clock this morning, morn-ing, near the comer of Grant avenue and Twenty-fourth street, opposite oppo-site the Becraft automobile shops, where a large crowd gathered when it became known that the police were raiding the den of the holdups. The four men are now under close guard at the city jail. Lewis and Murphy rfire the men who held, up the Oregon Short ijlLine train last summer, and they are also the men who held up and robbed the pawnshop of Wolfe on Twenty-fifth street. J Shafer is a young fellow from Butte, Montana. (E. Out of the ominous silence, which j iTor the past few days has enshrouded I the actions of the officers at work 3 on the Overland Limited train rob-jjlbcry, rob-jjlbcry, which occurred on the night of jfoan. 2. west of Ogden. came the an- nouncement shortly before noon today lby Chief of Police . E. Browning thai jthe bamlits were captured in a local i rooming house and were locked in 1 colls in the city prison. ;j At 9 o'clock this morning Chief of H Pollco Browning, Captain C C. Brown, 2 Detective James F. Pender and Shcr-'iff Shcr-'iff E. E. Harrison went quietly to the j rooming house conducted by Mrs. J. jlH. Labrum at 2-117 Grant avenue and in one of. the rooms on the second floor found four men sleeping in one jj'bed. These men were placed under arrest, taken from the house and loaded load-ed into the patrol wagon which was i In waiting and taken to the city prison pris-on whre they were locked tip. Wheii. the officers entered the room ) tfhero the men lay asleep there was i bo stir One of the officers Inform- i id the men that they were under nr-1 J fest and In reply the quartette of I Sleepers sat up lu bed nnd drowsily I Tubbed their eyes. They were ordor-jsi'cJ ordor-jsi'cJ to get up aud dress and they read-,ily read-,ily obeyed. There was In their actions Ijjiothlng to indicate that two of the Jnien wore the much-wanted train rob-tfjers. rob-tfjers. The arrest was made with as spittle trouble ns any of the previous 1 arrests of suspects. The mep were l not armed and carried with them but iiSJittlo money, according to the reports St of the arresting officers. ej The house in which the arrest was 'made is one of the oldest residences I In the business district of the city and ifor a number of ycar3 has been usen as a rooming house. After the arrest of the suspects, olb-I'er olb-I'er officers were sent to the place to I make a thorough search of the premises prem-ises in an effort to find somo of tho stolon jewelry or the weapons ofthc bandits. In speaking of the arrest, the chief of police stated that Uiere Is little doubt that two of the men are the train robbers. "The men wero not arrested on blind suspicion,' said the chief. "We have been shadowing them for some time and would have arrested them last night had we been able to get thorn all nt one time. We knew that they were all pals, but they have been separated. They did not go to this room until au early hour this morning and after a consultation con-sultation we decided to make the arrest. ar-rest. We did not anticipate having any trouble in arresting the men and did not," The chief was very discreet in giving giv-ing out what evidence was held I against the men. He stated that while i he was.certaln that tho right men had been captured, he could not, at the present time, make public the extent of evidenco which the police hold connecting con-necting tho men with the Reese robbery. rob-bery. Ho would not admit that any I of the "goods" were found on the bus-I bus-I pectn and declined to state which of jthofour men were the bandits. J Each one of the suspects has been locked In a separate cell and the cells nrQ being guarded by two armed officers of-ficers to prevent any possible escape. While the men are hold in the city prison two guards will be stntioned near their cells, night and day. The men on guard will work in three shifts of eight hours cacli Answer the Description. Two of the men are said to answer exactly the description of tho Overland Over-land outlaws and It Is thought that the other two men, while criminals, arc in no way connected with the (rain holdup. Ic is said that two detectives de-tectives at work on tho case at ono i time suspected two of tho men ar-I ar-I rested, but that after shadowing Uioni for a short time became convinced that they were wrong in their suspicions sus-picions and turned their attentions to other clues. The railroad officials were Immediately Immed-iately notified of the arrest of the suspects sus-pects and the crow of the Overland Limited will bo called to the city prison as soon as it is possible for them to do so. Girls Vill See the Men. 1 Tho daughters of Blshpp Wayment havo been notified to call at the station sta-tion to help In the identification. It will be remembered that the Wayment girls were accosted by the -banclits " tho Slaterville road, shortly after the holdup of the train. With tho girls were two young men acting as escorts and these may also aid in the identification. identi-fication. The first clue, connecting the arrested ar-rested men with the bandits, came to tho police about 2 o'clock Friday morning. The informant was a local saloonkeeper. Bet on the Ponies. In tracing tho action of the men it was found that since the Overland robbery they have been well supplied with monej' and that they have spent most of their time since the hold,up at gambling tables or In pool rooms betting upon horse races. On December 2i two of the men -rented a room at the Labrum house and have since been "batching." The police aro now making an effort to learn at what time the men left the house on tho night of the holdup and at what time they returned to the place All founof tho suspects take their arrest with the greatest coolness and tho officers state that when the room was raided one of the men very deliberately de-liberately held out his wrists' for handcuffs before the officer with the Irons had made tho request that ho do so. This indicates a past record. The men did not trouble the officers with any questions as to the reason for their arrest and up till noon today to-day had not asked to know why they were deprived of their liberty. " Hancock's Sack Found. While none of the stolen goods was found on the suspects by the officers, the sack in which the booty was collected col-lected and carried away was found in their possession. This receptacle was a pillow case taken from a Pullman Pull-man sleeper berth and was held during dur-ing the robbery bv Flagman II. II. Hancock While Hancock is not certain cer-tain that the sack he hold was a pillow pil-low case, the Pullman conductor, who also accompanied tho bandits through the train, states that he saw the caso taken from a pillow Just such a sack has been found by the police with tho Pullman stamp on it and it shows evidences of having been carried car-ried across the shoulder with heavy contents. .' Coats Show Grease. Tho overcoats worn by tho men on the night of tho holdup are also In possession of the police. Those coats show unmistakable signs of having been worn about a locomotive ns there are a number of telltale grease spots upon them and oil splashes. That the men have a knowledge of railroading is another fact known to the pollco. While the exact railroad history of tho men has not been unearthed, un-earthed, it is known that they have at some time worked on the Southern Pacific. Should this provo truo It will bear out the statements of the engineer aud conductor 6f the robbed passenger train that thoy had seen the bandits at work on Southern Pacific Pa-cific trains. Tho men aro what aro known as construction men, and they arc 3ald to be experienced railroader.?. Landlady's Statement. Throe of tho men, Murphy,. Shafer and Lewis, camo to the Model rooming room-ing house conducted by Mrs. J. II. Labrum, La-brum, December 21, 1910, and lensod two rooms, stating at the llmo that they desired to establish bachelors' quarters there, "The men have occupied tho rooms . since that time' said Mrs, Labrum m when questioned, "and they were joined by the fourth man, O'Dell, only a" short time ago, tho larger man of tlio three who first came to the house asking me if I hai any objections to their taking in a partner. I told him that it made no difference to me. The man has been with them ever since that time. "I have never seen a thing about the men that would lead me to suspicion suspi-cion that they were anything but working men. I took it that they were railroad hoys and were batching to save money They always appeared as perfect gentlemen. 1 did not ees them much, of course, and could not say what they have b?en doing. They kept their own roomsv and I never bad occasion to enter -the rooms at alL When the three men engaged- the rooms they asked whether it was nec-essnry nec-essnry for them to toqistar their names. I told them that it was not, as I did not take much pains in keeping keep-ing a register. I did not lenow their names until told mo after their arrest this morning. T have understood all the time, though they were railroad men," O'Dell Known to Police. The man giving his name as O'Dell is well known to the police department, depart-ment, having been incarcerated in the city" bastile a number of times since he has lived in Ogden. It was only about a year ago when he was arrested for stealing a man's watch. It was told at tho time that O'Dell "stuck the man up" and took his watch, but nothing but petit larceny could be proved against him and, after conviction, he served sixty dajv: In the city jail. The officers state, however, that they do not think O'Dell was directly connected with the Reese TObbory, but that in all probability ho can give valuable val-uable Information re'gardlng the other men under arrest. Shafer, known among tho officers already as "the boy." became considerably' consid-erably' tangled in his story to Detective Detec-tive Jones after his arrest. He first refused to state that he had ever been in Butte, Montana. Shortly afterwards, after-wards, though acknowledging that he had been there He also stated that he camo to Ogden January 2, but the statement of Mrs. Labrum directly contradicts him In that. The hold-ups have frequented the Central Hotel bar and the Old Mike Murphy saloon on Twenty-fifth street. Their guns aro supposed to be secreted secret-ed at one of these places. Eager to See Holdups. All nfternoon the police station was besieged by persons desiring to catch some sight of the bandits. Railroad men desiring to ascertain If they had cer known tho suspects, when working work-ing on the road, and persons who just had "their suspicions" and wanted to confirm them called at tho station in pairs and trios but all mot tho same reception from the officers. No one, was permitted to see tho suspects. on |